Going All the Way Quotes

“(Mrs. Burns couldn’t stand “raw meat” the way they ate it in the East, and at fancy restaurants unless you told them different, and then they got snotty about it).”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Right, yeh, how goes it, man?”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Put us up shit crick without a paddle,” Bud said.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“His mother said she had to use the wagon that afternoon, but she’d drop him off wherever he was going. “I’m going to the Red Key,” he said. “Where?” “The Red Key,” he shouted. “Over on College and Fifty-fourth Street.” “The tavern?” “It’s a bar.” “You’re going there in the afternoon?” “I’m meeting a guy.” “Are you sure they’re open—in the afternoon?” Sonny took a deep breath. “I’m sure.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Going All the Way is about what hell it is to be oversexed in Indianapolis, and why so many oversexed people run away from there. It is also about the narrowness and dimness of many lives out that way. And I guarantee you this: Wakefield himself, having written this book, can never go home again. From now on, he will have to watch the 500-mile Speedway race on television.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Yes. That's why it's so hard to look in a mirror. You are looking at yourself, but you don't recognize yourself. It's a shock. The person you see is older, and heavier, and has wrinkles. But you don't feel that way inside, and it's hard to believe that's how you really look now, how other people see you.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way